Sheffield

Today's image for our LornaLPodcast journal depicts Sheffield. Here are the Victoria Quays They are found in the centre of Sheffield, at the western end of the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. 

We are grateful to iaint for supplying this shot - thank you! iaint explains that the city of Sheffield is England’s fourth largest, and synonymous with steel making. However, much of this industry has disappeared over the last 40 years.

Those familiar with the LornaL blipfoto journal will know that Sheffield is central to the story of war diarist Lorna Lloyd. Lorna lived here from the age of 11 in 1925 (or possibly age 10 in 1924) until she left home to study at Girton College, Cambridge in 1933. The reason that Lorna's family lived in Sheffield is that her father worked in the steel industry until the mid-1930s.  (He later came out of retirement to return to military service when war broke out, and was awarded an MBE in 1943 for putting his knowledge of metals to good use in Africa.) 

While Sheffield features numerous times in the Lornal journal, Lorna only refers to the city directly once in her war diary. On 5th December 1940 she mentions Sheffield in remarks about the bombing of British cities and her sense of home. In addition, on 31st December the same year she reports the destruction of St Mark's, Broomhill - the church where she was confirmed. Listen to Lorna's great-great niece actress Bethany Ray read Lorna's words from these diary entries in Episode 7 and Episode 8 of our podcast series of the Diary of the war.

We're looking for more blipper contributions to our journal! If you have a photograph(s) of any of the places listed below (that you have not blipped already), please do send it(them) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk and we will feature it(them) alongside the others that we have been blipping here since 13th July 2022. We will also add your name to our blipper credits list below. Thank you!

ENGLISH CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS
Bolton
Coventry
Gloucester
Ilford
Worcester

ENGLAND: SMALLER LOCATIONS
Leigh, Gloucestershire
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
 
ENGLAND: VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Callow End, Malvern 
Caxton Hall, London

EUROPE - SPECIFIC PLACES
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
France: Bailleul,  Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, Roncesvalles,
Finland: Hanko (Hangoe), Mannerheim Line, Petsamo, Viipuri
Germany: Heligoland, Siegfried Line
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Romagna, Taranto
Poland: Silesia, Warsaw, Westerplatte
Russia: Karelian Isthmus
Spain: Guernica

REST OF THE WORLD - SPECIFIC PLACES
Egypt: Sidi Barrani
Iraq: Babylon (Hillah)
Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria: Lake Chad
Senegal: Dakar
South Africa: Mafeking (Mafekeng)

EUROPE AND REST OF THE WORLD - GENERAL (i.e. we just need a shot from anywhere in the country listed)
Belgium
Czech Republic
French Equatorial Africa (now Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon)
Greece
Libya
Luxembourg
Middle East
Poland
Romania
South Africa

Thank you to all the blippers who have already supplied pictures for this project to date:

ArcLight
1bluebell 
bibba 
Colstro
DarkEyedMary
digitaldaze
esiuol 
hjarald
iaint
Ingeborg
jelleybaby
Joyful
LauraMuir
Livresse
Munroist4113
Nettenet
Pandammonium
Pinkhairedlady
Ridgeback13
rosewiles7
Sallymair
SMLP
SparseRunner
Tigger101
Tweedy
walkingMarj
whome
Winsford